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BS 135 Lisa Barrett on How Emotions Are Made

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Effects of Affective Realism on the Brain

The predictions that the brain makes about the body happen slightly before the, they're wired in such a way. When your brain is predictably regulating your body, you are going to sometimes have very strong affective feelings. The sensations from your body will become intense and you will experience this as intense delight or distress or intense jitteriness or intense tranquility. This actually influences what, literally what you see.

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